A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature --and another woman to help him forget them.